The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-07-23


alone, abeat which they knew nothing.
Mrs. Thurber's enthusiasm got the better
of her judgment, and she failed TO recng-
nize the fact, that almost every manager
who has attempted opera here, in forty
years, has been ruined. As able a manager |
as Henry Abbey, having splendid new
theatre at his command, a magnificent
company, and excellent patronage-sunk
in single season over one hundred and
City thousand dollars, every cent Of which
he paid. Colonel Mapleson of Her Majes
ty's Opera, one Of the oldest and most ex-
perienced operatic managers in the world,
was always in state of chronic bankrupt
cy, and several times got out of New York
and properties going under the auctioneer's
hammer In view of the above facts,
suppose It is safe to say, for the present at
least "Good-bye to the American OPERA"
OF all the crimes in the calendar, there
is none that appears to me more infamous
that of which miserable woman was con-
vlcted last week, and for which she will
doubtless serve some years in the peniten-
tiary or States prison. She kept ostensibly
an intelligence Office, where servants were
provided with situations; but was really
procuress for the vile dens with which this
city is cursed. God only knows how many
poor girls have gone down to ruin from this
infamous establishment; how many liyes
have been blasted by this she devil, in her
lust for gain.
Fortunately for the complainant in this
case, clergyman had reason to suspect the
character of the vile place, and he induced
German theological student to accept a
clerkshlp with the procuress, whose place
it was TO deliver the girls in the dens to
which they were assigned. lie saved the
girls, and when all the proofs could be pro-
cured descent was made upon the place,
and after short trial the wretch was con-
yicted and sentenced. It is astonishing
how this shocking business thrives here.
1t is enly few months since the notorious
Professor DeLeon was hunted down by the
VOrld's detective and sent to States Prison
for sending his yict ms to life of shame at
Panama. BY the way, 1 see that this same
clever young journalist has taken hand
in tracking the Stony Creek murderers, and
one time when he wanted to get special
of the Tombs he dressed himself in rags
and laid down under a lamp-post where he
was picked up by the police, and on hi:
nights experience in prison got exactly the
information he wanted.
1t is only a couple of weeks ago that an
other wretch was convicted and sent tC
prison fer the crime of inyeigling young
girls to ruin under pretence OF getting then
situations. The community is thoroughly
aroused, and every effort will be made t.
hunt these Infamous criminals down.
1t now looks as if we were going to hay,
quite revolution in our means Of locomo
ton. On one of our uptown railroads tn,
electric engine has been pronounced an un
qualified success. The saving involved b.
the introduction of the new invention i
said to be fully two-thirds, and if this i
really so, the horse must go, and even tn
improved cable will soon be thing of tn
past. More startling still is the announce
ment of company here, that petroleum
can be used as fuel without the slightes
danger, at all times and under all circum
stances; and if this be so, with crude oil a
, fifty cents barrel, mans fuel for hi
household wsuld cost him about ten cents
week. What a vision of happiness thi
: unfolds. No more the slaYe of the Goa
, Barons; no ash barrels TO carry out; N
y piles of klndling wood to get; no oil-stove
\ to proyide-but fire always ready at an in
q stant's notice. Wonderful, isn't it, and s
n safe that Bridget could not blow herself u
y If she tried.
d One thing appears very certain, and tina
, is that is that the lucky inventor has struc
: a big bonanza. 1t is simply an iron cal
c fridge packed with mineral wood; thi
soaked in petroleum and thrown into th
stove, and hey, presto fly! you have fire fc
an hour without further trouble. Thoul
ands of them have gone into use in the la:
few weeks, in New York and Brooklyn, an
as yet have not heard of single accident
/ 1 went to the cempanY's store, No.
Il Cortland street, to see the operation of th
: new invention. The place looked like
n fair, people were struggling to get up to th
counter, while near the window a ma
II stood by an immense stove demonstratin
/ the utility of the new invention; if oculs
n proof be worth anything it certainly wa
1t most satisfactory, and as 1 watched th
u man feeding his stove on petroleum, sal
e TO myself coal and woed must go, and m
q only regret was that this wonderful inyel
e tion did not reach us last winter before IL
n great coal strike.
a The extreme punishment of excommun
II cation puts Father McGlynn outside IL
e pale of the Catholic church. The Anathem
II Maranatha, with bell, book and candle, hi
II not been carried out; had it been in a Catl
s. elic country 1t would have been; but in ii
+ United States the church had no desire
II expose itself to ridicule by proneuncing
il curse which would have set the entire con
II munity in a broad grin. This last reso
"a Of the church's power seems to make vel
little difference with the recalcitrant clerg,
ID man or his adherents; the consequences
e the church's curse seem to haYe bee
v largely discounted by the parishioners
Sc St. Stephens months ago, and tho excon
munication is regarded about as eneetu
1t as the Pope's Bull against the comet.
"a Sympathy for Jake Sharp in his broke
oi health, is taking definite form; and Il
10 foreman of the jury who convicted him, p
o. titioned the Judge for light sentence. n
one desires to send him to prison for lif
y yet it would be that If you send him
rs prison at all for he is now seventy yea
N Of age, broken down and dying. His bri
er term Of imprisonment has inflicted ON hi